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How to Enable Aero Shake in Windows 11 (Title Bar Window Shake)

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Transcription So in previous versions of Windows, there used to be a feature called Aero Shake. The way Aero Shake worked is you would left-click a particular window in the title bar here, left-click and hold and you could shake the mouse, and that would make the windows behind it actually disappear. So the windows behind here would actually disappear. Now, in Windows 11, it seems like they disabled this by default. Here’s how you can bring it back. You simply press the start button, you type Settings, press ENTER, and then when this window pops up you click “System”, and then you go down to where it says “Multitasking” and you click that. And then here where it says … Read more

How to Copy the Contents of Error Dialogs in Windows (Short)

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Transcription When you encounter an error message in Windows 11, and you want to Google that message to understand what it’s all about, you don’t have to actually look at the dialog and type into Google what you’re seeing. Instead, try pressing CTRL+C when you have the dialog in focus. So when I do that and then I pop open Notepad and then I paste, notice that it has the exact same contents as the dialog. So if you look right here, it tells me what the title is, it tells me what the content is and that there’s a button called OK. This makes it far easier to copy the text and stick it in Google. This won’t work … Read more